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Robert Enke, the Germany goalkeeper, lived with the daily dread of his depressive illness being exposed and the fear that it could end his career, his widow said yesterday.

The day after Enke took his own life at 32 by lying down in front of a train, Teresa, his widow, said: “When he was acutely depressive it was difficult. Difficult above all because he didn’t want anything to get out. That’s the way he wanted it, because he was terrified of losing his sport.

“It was a tough time. That is clear because he thought there was no hope of